2024 has been wild. Towards the end of 2023 we decided to move to Spain. I've always loved Spain and it's the country I've travelled the most to. We made the decision randomly one night and so the scramble started.

The first step was finding a lawyer and gathering documents. We knew we didn't need the added stress of DIYing it. We scheduled a couple of calls for the following week and were sold on the second one. They guided us through the process and we gathered all of the documents over the following month. The highlight was probably having to get married to get a marriage act. This was towards the end of October and we were only getting started.

We couldn't leave without our cats. Having four of them only made it more tedious. To import them into the EU we needed a clean rabies test from a certified lab. The closest lab was in the US and getting the results would take a month. The result isn't even valid until 3 months after the blood is extracted so that push our timeline to January at the earliest. We still needed to start the visa application process and pack up our apartment so we needed to get a lot going.

Angela left for Spain on the second week of November to get the application started and to get a new apartment. In the meantime I stayed back and started packing the apartment and getting the cats ready for the move.

Angela got a positive reply on the last week of December as I was almost done packing. With the papers now in order I had to figure out how to get the cats to Spain. Only one cat is allowed per passenger on the cabin so I had to get 3 friends to come with me to deliver the cats.

We left the third week of January, everyone got to Spain safely.

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